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UNINA9910512203803321 |
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Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense / / edited by Janet Carsten, Hsiao-Chiao Chiu, and 3 others |
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London : , : UCL Press, , 2021 |
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1 online resource (xii, 165 pages) |
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Monografia |
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense -- 1 Go Fiwa Molao/Giving the Law: Marriage, Law and Social Change in Botswana -- 2 'You can Learn to Do It Right, or You can Learn to Do It Wrong': Marriage Counselling, Togetherness and Creative Conservatism in Lynchburg, Virginia -- 3 Marriage, Time, Affect and the Politics of Compromise in Athens -- 4 Getting Married as a Trial: Deferring Marriage in Jinmen, Taiwan 5 (Un)certain Futures: Rhythms and Assemblages of Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages -- 6 Marriage and Self-Fashioning in Penang, Malaysia: Transformations of the Intimate and the Political -- Index -- Back Cover. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense places new and changing forms of marriage in comparative perspective as a transforming and also transformative social institution. |
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